We crossed
Cumberland Mountain at the Gap. Here we passed out of Tennessee, across the
corner of Virginia, and into Kentucky in going, perhaps, a little over one
hundred yards. Virginia corners at Cumberland Gap, a little west of the road.
Some grand mountain
scenery met our view at the Gap. We saw bluffs and peaks from one thousand to
seventeen hundred feet high.
Passing on fifteen
miles beyond the Gap, crossing the three “Log Mountains,” we encamped at Camp
Buckner (Cumberland Ford), in Knox County, Kentucky.
SOURCE: Richard R. Hancock, Hancock's
Diary: Or, A History of the Second Tennessee Confederate Cavalry, p. 44
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